Curio

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Curio may refer to:

Objects

  • Bric-à-brac, lesser objets d'art for display
  • Cabinet of curiosities, a room-sized collection or exhibit of curios or curiosities
  • Collectables
  • Curio cabinet, a cabinet constructed for the display of curios

People

  • Eberhard Curio (1932–2020), German ecologist
  • Gottfried Curio (born 1960), German politician
  • Curio maximus, a priesthood in ancient Rome that had oversight of the curiae
  • Gaius Scribonius Curio (disambiguation), the name of several ancient Romans, especially a father and son who were active in the 1st century BC
  • an online pseudonym for Diana Napolis

Places

  • Curio, Switzerland, a municipality in the district of Lugano in the canton of Ticino in Switzerland
  • Curio Bay, a coastal bay best known as the site of a petrified forest some 180 million years old
  • Curio (Twelfth Night), a character in the Shakespearean comedy Twelfth Night
  • Curio (band), a Japanese rock band
  • Curio (The Shak), a character on the television program The Shak

Other uses

  • Curio (brand), a collection in the Hilton portfolio
  • Curio (plant), a genus of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae

See also

  • Curiosity (disambiguation)
  • Curious (disambiguation)
  • Curia (disambiguation)
  • Curie (disambiguation)
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